There was a ceremony going on near Buckingham Palace. The young boy and I were instructed by a helpful policeman to approach St James’s Park from Queen Anne’s gate. I hadn’t approached the park from there before and the entry opens at Birdcage Walk.
This is the final stretch of the London marathon before it curves around the mall at a spectacular photo finish with the Buckingham Palace as the backdrop.
The roads were busy with folks dressed in afternoon formal attire and the young boy and I weaved through them eventually running down paths hitherto unexamined. Three loops took us just past the thirty minute mark to finish up the run and settle into a leisurely breakfast.
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